Smokey | About al-Qâhira fî Amrîkâ

This site is Made with Macintosh on a PowerBook G3 Series.

Specifically, these pages were constructed first with an Apple Power Macintosh 6100/66 and a Performa 6200 using Apple's SimpleText and Rick Giles's HTML Editor.

For about one and one-half years, they were maintained on Qâytbây, my PowerComputing PowerCenter 132.

I now maintain and update this site on Palmyra, my Macintosh PowerBook G3 Series 250/13.3, a real Pentium-killer from Apple, and use Page Spinner from Optima System.

Photos and slides were scanned on an Apple Color OneScanner with Ofoto on a Power Macintosh 7100/80AV and with a Polaroid SprintScan 35 negative/slide scanner using Adobe Photoshop 3 and 4 on a Umax SuperMac J700/150 and a PowerCenter 132, and edited with MicroFrontier's ColorIt!, Thorsten Lemke's excellent GraphicConverter, and Photoshop 4 and 5 on Qâytbây and Palmyra. Additional graphics were created and edited with ColorIt!, GraphicConverter, Photoshop, and Adobe's ImageReady Preview Release.

"Habîbî" was recorded using my "advanced" audio setup: my tape player, Qâytbây's audio-in cable, Apple's SimpleSound Desk Accessory, and converted to a RealAudio 5.0 file with RealNetworks' RealEncoder on Qâytbây. As soon as I find a site offering a free QuickTime Streaming Server for small files, "Habîbî" goes back to QuickTime. RealAudio is garbage, and the recent Mac players have been even worse!

The "Introduction to the Arab World and the Arab League" PDF file was composed in Corel WordPerfect 3.5 and converted to PDF by James W. Walker's nifty shareware PrintToPDF.

To polish it all off, the pages were then previewed in Netscape Navigator [currently v4.08] and the excellent new standards-based iCab and then uploaded to GeoCities with NetFinder from Peter Li and Vincent Tan.

If you aren't familiar with iCab, NetFinder, PrintToPDF, PageSpinner, or GraphicConverter, download them and try them out! They are excellent programs and beat the big names in their market segments in many ways!

For ease of use, graphics and multimedia, and web design, nothing beats Macintosh and MacOS!

The site updates and news section has now moved to its own page; please visit it here.